Mercenary System: I can increase innate potential !-Chapter 222: First beast tamed (last - )

"It's over, now we just have to see if the skills of my new class really allow me to tame such a ferocious and powerful beast."

Indeed, Maxime had always underestimated the strength of this legendary beast. It was clearly a beast that even a great knight would not underestimate.

Meanwhile, the talent [Awakening of Life] had kicked into high gear in Maxime's body, and had slightly healed his wounds and some of the pain.

At least he could walk normally and make his way to the wyvern.

"Good work, Dravus." Maxime commented as he arrived just in front of the wyvern.

"No worries." he replied calmly.

"Thank you Kaite and Langus for your support at the right time," he continued, nodding to his two knights.

The two responded with a small nod.

In any case, it was normal to act this way because if Maxime died, they would die too. It was in their best interest to defend him at the risk of their lives.

Then Maxime placed a hand on the massive skull of the wyvern.

Seeing that his name was not called, Andrew bit his lips in frustration.

It had indeed been useless, even though he had been the first to react.

But at that moment, Maxime did not know about the torment of his young vice-leader.

His heart was pounding as he activated his power.

[Beast Link]

The moment he activated the skill, he found himself in a dark space.

In front of him, the wyvern's silhouette appeared, completely towering over him.

"Is this a battle of wills?" Maxime wondered.

He really didn't know what to do with the wyvern in front of him.

But as he asked himself this question, some information answering his questions appeared in his mind.

After analyzing them for a moment, he smiled and thought:

"This skill is really a skill tailor-made for me."

"Invader, why invade my territory?"

Surprisingly, a voice came out of the wyvern's mouth.

"You can talk?" Maxime asked in surprise.

"Why shouldn't I be able to talk?" the wyvern replied immediately with disdain.

"Obviously, we are in a space created by your mental consciousness, so we are no longer separated by the barriers of language," it continued, still in the same tone.

"What surprising class, but I imagine that for a class of epic rank this kind of thing is normal," Maxime thought silently.

The wyvern was still looking at Maxime with fierce eyes at that moment.

"But you haven't answered my question, invader."

"It's because I came for you." Maxime replied simply, looking up at the wyvern.

"For me? All I did was steal a few pastures from the humans in the surrounding villages."

"I always made sure not to disturb them too much or scare them."

"Why would humans as powerful as you mobilize an elite squad to shoot me down?" As she said this, the wyvern was filled with frustration and hatred.

Until then, she thought she had hidden well and did not deserve the attention of human beings.

And indeed, that was the case. Even the griffin knights present nearby did not wish to deal with her.

At this, Maxime smiled slightly.

"We are mercenaries, not a squad of elite men mobilized by the kingdom. And to answer your questions, the mere fact that you are alive gives me a reason to take the time to capture you."

The wyvern was extremely angry when it heard this.

"The simple fact of being alive? Humans really are the trash they think they are, totally incapable of living in communion with other species."

"In the past, all the races lived together in peace. But because of you humans and your insatiable desire for power and war, all the races suffered huge losses and the continent was even fragmented into countless parts because of your actions."

Hearing the wyvern's words, Maxime was more than surprised. He did not expect to obtain historical information about the history of this world.

"How do you know all this?"

"Wyverns are a race with dragon blood, and like dragons, certain memories can be passed down through the blood and generations."

It was these memories that had made the wyvern hide in the Kadis mountain and deliberately avoid disturbing humans so as not to be hunted down.

"In any case, know that I have not come to kill you, but to make you a combat partner," Maxime explained, in a tone that was neither arrogant nor humble.

"I refuse." replied the wyvern, disdainfully.

"I would rather die than submit to a human weaker than me."

Maxime sighed at this, then asked rhetorically:

"Weaker than you?"

Maxime smiled and activated [Beast Link] again.

Indeed, it was a skill that had to be activated twice to fully exert its effect.

Updat𝓮d fr𝙤m ƒгeeweɓn૦vel.com.

When he activated the skill for the second time, two mysterious figures appeared behind Maxime.

And at the same moment they appeared, the wyvern, due to the pressure exerted, was immediately pressed to the ground.

As if a mountain had just fallen on its back, it was totally unable to resist.

"How did you do that?"

Maxime moved closer to the wyvern, to the point that he could touch it with just an outstretched arm.

At the same time, the difference in size between the two was now completely obvious.

He really did look like an ant in the face of a mammoth.

"My ability to subdue animals like you is not based on my personal strength to force them to submit."

"It relies mainly on my talent."

When he himself learned this just before, Maxime was really happy.

In concrete terms, once he managed to bring an animal to this species, he was almost invincible.

"Talent?"

The wyvern couldn't believe it and found it hard to believe the human in front of her.

As a wyvern and an extremely powerful creature, her racial talent was enough for her to dominate most humans as well as many animals.

But obviously, this human in front of her was far too monstrous.

At the same time, she felt something forming in her mind, just like Maxime.

A bond was being created between the two of them.

Gradually, a cage with a tiny wyvern appeared in a space in Maxime's consciousness.

Finally, after a few seconds, this cage enclosing a wyvern was fully materialized in his mind.

Then he took a deep breath. It was done.

This wyvern... It was under his control.

Simultaneously, the space created by the skill was shattered into a thousand pieces, and his mind and that of the wyvern returned to reality.

Maxime opened his eyes at the same moment as the wyvern.

All eyes focused on him.

"Untie the ropes." Maxime ordered.

His mercenaries had some doubts, but they all obeyed immediately.

Everyone watched as the legendary creature, which had previously seemed indomitable, slowly straightened up.

Its pupils, once filled with rage and defiance, flickered under the effect of the bond that had just been created.

It shook its head, as if to cast off a strange sensation, then fixed its sharp gaze on Maxime.

A heavy silence fell over the clearing, broken only by the powerful breath of the wyvern.

The mercenaries, who had watched the whole scene with suspicion, now wore a stunned expression.

"…He really did it?" whispered Kaite, eyes wide.

Even his former boss, Duke Devron, was incapable of such a thing.

Only the king had the ability to tame flying monsters, and they were griffins.

It took three griffins to beat even one wyvern.

"He really tamed a wyvern." Langus could see the disbelief on his face as he looked at the wyvern in front of him.

Dravus, who was standing next to Maxime, smiled slightly.

He was originally a genie from a Dravak tribe, one of the races known for their extraordinary fighting power.

Naturally, his vision was broader than that of the villagers of Eternity and was therefore not as surprised as the mercenaries.

But the one who was most admiring was certainly Charles.

"I wonder if my talent works on this kind of monster?" he thought excitedly.

As for the wyvern itself, it lowered its head, as if an invisible weight forced it to recognize its new master.

"It's... impossible..." it whispered, its voice resonating directly in Maxime's mind through the bond that now united them.

Maxime, for his part, smiled slightly and reached out towards the creature's snout, brushing against its rough scales.

"Don't worry, I'll take good care of you. And in the future, I'll improve your lineage." he said calmly.

"Improve my lineage?" thought the wyvern silently, and above all doubtfully.

But she didn't think the human was lying to her, because he had no interest in doing so.

She just remained silent while accepting her new destiny, in spite of herself.

"Chief, while you were unconscious, we went to explore the cave."

Romuald's voice made Maxime turn towards him, with a mixture of doubt and curiosity.

He turned around, and when he saw what his men were carrying as they came down from the summit, it left him speechless.